Contributors / Collaborateurs

Labour / Le Travail
Issue 92 (2023)

Sean Antaya is an independent scholar and library worker based in Windsor, Ontario. His research focuses on labour history, the New Left, and 20th-century countercultures. He is also interested in music history and recently organized a series of events promoting traditional blues and folk music at the Windsor Public Library.

Veldon Coburn is an associate professor in the School of Continuing Studies at McGill University.

Anupam Das is professor of economics at Mount Royal University, Canada. His current research interests are in the areas of unionization, inequality, empirical environmental economics, and gender gap. He has published in Applied Economics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review, Review of Social Economy, and the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, among others.

Rebecca J. Hall is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University.

Ian Hudson is a professor of economics in the Economics and Society Stream at the University of Manitoba. His research applies a political economy lens to issues in economic thought and inequality. He has co-authored several books, including Consumption (with Mark Hudson; 2020) and Neoliberal Lives (with Robert Chernomas and Mark Hudson; 2019), and has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Studies in Political Economy, and Review of Social Economy.

Mark Hudson is professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and coordinator of the Global Political Economy Program at the University of Manitoba. His research takes a political economy approach to exploring the intersection of human societies and non-human nature. He has authored or co-authored books on wildland fire, fair trade, consumption, and neoliberal life and published in, among others, Review of Social Economy, Organization and Environment, Review of Radical Political Economy, Studies in Political Economy, Environmental Politics, and Extractive Industries and Society.

Adam D. K. King is an assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba.

Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

Greg McElligott is a professor of community development and criminal justice at Humber College. He is the author of Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Democratic Administration (2001), as well as several articles on the political significance of front-line workers, in and beyond the neoconservative state. His other published work explores the political economy of prison building, the labour-market role of prisons, and the consequences of high-tech hubris in public policy. Future research will consider the role of the construction industry in promoting built solutions to social problems.

Don Nerbas is an associate professor and the St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. His current work is focused on the political economy of Cape Breton coal in the 19th century.

Andrea M. Noack is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Colleen O’Manique is a professor in the department of Global Development Studies at Trent University, and an affiliate of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies. Her teaching and research focus is on the political economy and ecology of global health, global social reproduction, and Human Rights. Her most recent book (edited with P.P. Fourie) is Global Health and Security, Critical Feminist Perspectives (Routledge 2019).

Nelson Ouellet est professeur agrégé au Département d’histoire et de géographie de l’Université de Moncton, campus de Moncton. Il enseigne l’histoire des États-Unis, plus particulièrement ses dimensions sociales.

Joan Sangster is Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and past president of the Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada, she has written eight monographs and many book chapters and articles in interdisciplinary and disciplinary venues dealing with working women, the labour movement, the history of the left, the criminalization of women and girls, women and the law, and feminist historiography. A past associate editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas and co-editor of Labour/Le Travail, her most recent books include Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada (2010), The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada (2016), and Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism (2021).

Julia Smith is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and leads the Health and Social Inequities Theme at the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society. From 2020 to 2022, she co-led the Gender and covid-19 Research Project, which conducted research on the gendered effects of the pandemic across nine countries.

Ron Verzuh is a writer, historian, and documentary filmmaker. He holds a PhD in history from Simon Fraser University and is the author of Smelter Wars: A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada (2022), an account of a wartime organizing drive at the large metal smelter in Trail, BC. His book Printer’s Devils: How a Feisty Pioneer Newspaper Shaped the History of British Columbia’s Smelter City, 1895–1925 (2023) is a social history of Trail. His article “The Raiding of Local 480: A Historic Cold War Struggle for Union Supremacy” appeared in Labour/Le Travail 82 (Fall 2018).

Leah F. Vosko, frsc, is a professor of politics and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work at York University.

Tyler Wentzell is a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Toronto. His first book, Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2020.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.001.